Before you National Firearms Museum (The National Firearms Museum), located in the headquarters of the NRA in Virginia. The museum is very nehily - 14 galleries with 85 stands, two thousand or so barrels. Especially nice that entrance, and parking - free of charge. Surprised that the input generally is not a soul was no Feith control checks of bags and other things. Just walk into the door and immediately get into the hall with exponents. In some ways symbolic, in the spirit of the organization:)
1 As already written above, admission is free, but donations from individuals naturally welcome, as in other American museums. A container for donations - eight-inch shell for experimental automatic guns, which the Marine Corps had experienced in 60th years. 2 Italian carbine with kolestsovym lock .66 caliber. This gun once belonged to one John Alden, and with him in 1620 crossed the Atlantic on the ship "Mayflower."
Three pistils
4 More pistils. If someone does not know - because of a singly charged pistols at the end of the handle was made thick blyamba designed for heroic breakout skulls of enemies weapon discharged
5 gun during the war for U.S. independence
6 This is one of the guns that Lewis and Clark took in his famous expedition. Unusually there is this ... vozdushka. Specifically - 22-round Girandoni Air Rifle. Marketed with three tanks of compressed air, each container holding 800 psi (5.5MPa), missed his 70 shots and was required for full charging pump strokes in 1500. At a distance of 15 meters rifle could put ten shots in terms of group size of a coin. Owners Murok - madly, jealous of a pleasure:)
7 This shushpangever blew my mind. 12-gun battery and c shock-flint-lock. Ammunition - alternate, 12 bullets and 12 major charges in the gun barrel, on the outside, there are 12 seed holes covered with shutters. With each shot the lock can be moved one step back
8 Type of closer
9 Gatling, NJ! Again, if someone does not know - this is the prototype of modern guns. One soldier shoved into the bunker ammo packs, where they are under their own weight are fed into the barrel.
10 Second soldier tries to direct vundervaflyu with clever handles, natural instinct, and such a mother.
11 The third fighter turns the handle which makes Gatling to do "tratata."
12 And the fourth looks at these three intellectuals.
13 Do you like the gun
14 Mountain weapon number 1
15 Mountain weapon number 2
16 Mountain weapon number 3 (if interested in specific examples - below is a link to the site of the museum)
17 A separate section is dedicated to muscheya weapons from the movies. There is everything from a shotgun with a silencer from the "Old Men"
Up to 18 blasters of "Star Wars"
19 And even the sword out, although topics such as the museum does not fit
20 A revolver is the protagonist of the series "Firefly" - the best space western of all time:)
Of the 21 sections with an experimental weapon. For example here is the world's only gun with magazine feed cartridges, and triangle (!) Cartridges. A total of 1,000 copies made of the weapons
22 shops rocket launcher. Bear's cavalry sorry swallow saliva and wipe tears of envy
23 In the form of the stand I just do not like a wolf howling with happiness:) We've got recently celebrated 100 years of the most epic gun of all time - M1911 - in honor of this and organized a shop window.
24 Model 1907
Modified Colt 25
26 But this colt in the company of eighteen American soldiers and officers sailed in frail boat two thousand miles on the road from the besieged Japanese Korregidora in Australia.
About 27 Korregidora - This Colt at the time belonged to MacArthur. Which, IMHO, does not deserve a tenth of the accolades that he got. 28 The same gun belonged to Eisenhower
29 And this rifle - Teddy Roosevelt, in my opinion - the best U.S. president.
30 Reconstruction of a scene during the fighting in Normandy
31 This gun belonged to a New York police officer Walter Weaver. He was last seen September 11, 2001, in the sixth floor of the World Trade Center - he was trying to free passengers trapped in an elevator. His remains were not found, but the ashes were found his service weapon:
Source:vakhnenko.livejournal.com
